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Most people, including the Westerners, were too afraid to document the cruelty of the tyranny, some who did went unnoticed due to Leopold's worldwide stance as a famous philanthropist. But, some of the savagery can be explored by reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Brutality, as it was inspired by the brutality in Congo by the force Publique. It was only when the publicist, Edward Dene Morel realized that Leopold was enforcing slave labor in Africa, did the brutality of Leopold came under the light. Morel, like Leopold was smart enough to manipulate media's attention and thus created a newspaper in order to highlight Leopold's savagery and cunning personality hidden under the façade of a humanitarian. Morel, along with Roger Casement, managed to create enough buzz against Leopold that he failed to control the international outcry against him and his regime. But he, and after his death, the Belgian government managed to create a façade of "Congo Question" by convincing the international community of human right that adequate reforms have been undertaken to control the brutality of enslavement of Congolese people. Even though Morel and casement achieved a great accomplishment on various fields, the idea of freedom of Congo is far from the truth. Indeed, even now, Congo is heavily under the influence of its colonial and western-imperial past as the current dictator, Joseph Mobutu, continue to use brutal force to rule over the nation. He